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Profile: Betty Currie Betty Currie Betty Currie is President Clinton's devoted longtime personal secretary. She played a pivotal role in Kenneth Starr's investigations into potential perjury and interference with justice in the Lewinsky affair. Currie, 58, was the office manager of the "war room, " the 1992 Clinton campaign headquarters in Little Rock. THE PLAYERS Betty Currie Lucianne Goldberg Paula Jones Vernon Jordan Monica Lewinsky Kenneth Starr Linda Tripp Currie is said to have befriended Monica Lewinsky when Lewinsky worked in the White House and to have authorized her more than 30 visits to the building after she went to work at the Pentagon in 1996. Currie had an as yet unclear role in the giving of gifts by Clinton to Lewinsky and in subsequent efforts to reclaim some of them. More importantly, she was involved in attempts to find a new job for Lewinsky late last year, days after lawyers for Paula Jones said they wanted to ask Lewinsky whether she had a sexual relationship with Clinton. By Scripps Howard News Service